1. Links
As of now, no links to anything on the internet work in regional polls. I think it would be nice if we could at least be able to use links on the NS site and forum that would bring us to the thing we're linking to (hot links), such as dispatches and forum threads as well as nations and regions. Another thing that would be helpful if hot links are added is the ability to use NS bbcode to shorten the said links, such as the url code and the nation/region codes.
2. Voter Eligibility
Right now I think we have a pretty good spread of options on voter eligibility, however I wish to bring up the possibility of at least two new additions. Those additions would be "Nations in embassy regions" and "WA nations in embassy regions". I believe that these options would be beneficial to narrow down the scope of who can vote in a poll outside of a region, instead of just leaving it wide open. There are multiple regions I think would benefit from this idea being implemented to polls, such as Forest with their interregional photo contest and interregional alliances such as the URA where they could bring their voting to the NS Gameside instead of using off-site forums like they do now.
3. Hidden Poll Results
Sometimes it's beneficial to have poll results shown at all times all the way through the poll, and then sometimes it may be more beneficial to have hidden results for either a limited time or the whole time. The times I'm thinking of where it would be beneficial is when you're running a regional or interregional contest and you want people to vote based on the quality instead of the amount of votes already voted, as well as when you're running regional or interregional elections and you don't want people voting based upon the amount of votes someone has already received.
4. Multiple Simultaneous Polls
Running only one poll at a time is sometimes a shot in the foot. Things come up where regions may need to run an important poll, but can't unless they end a current poll earlier than expected or planned. I think it would be beneficial to have the ability to run more than one poll at a time, whether that's 2 or more, so that multiple things can happen in a region at a time. In its current setup a regional poll is visible on the regions main page, but I know that polls have their own page on the site where 2 or more can be run without cluttering up the region page.
5. Make Polls Easier to Access
As it stands right now it's not that easy to find a regions polls unless you go through three or four links and know how to find the said links. It may be beneficial to add a link to polls at the top of a regions page, like we have for the RMB and History and administration and rank and activity.
6. Polls Being Tied to Regional Officer Positions
This idea was brought up by Sedgistan. It may be a cool idea to tie regional polls to regional officer positions, so that real elections can take place on the NS site instead of off-site like they do now. These polls would be extremely limited in who can start them though, so that only a nation with executive power can start them. The nation starting the poll would have the option to put in a regional officer name, select which powers the officer would receive, and when the poll ended the nation with the most votes would automatically be placed in the RO spot.
These are my ideas. I'm not sure if they can be implemented, how they can be implemented, or if they'll work but I'll leave it up to the conversation and coders.
Other Ideas:
Galiantus III wrote:Hulldom wrote:Don't know how feasible it would be (my guess is not very), but some sort of system whereby nations could rank options (and poll officers could access what nations voted for what option in what preference) might be nice.
Going with this same line of thought, could we have an option to let respondents pick multiple options on a poll? It's simpler to implement than ranking, and is already a feature of forum polls.
Haganham's Ideas: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=509236
